Re: Blog post: First Glance at Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard

2010-02-13 Thread erik burggraaf
It's a good theory. Unfortunately I've never been able to get the trackpad to co-operate personally. I can mute speech and turn on the screen curtan, but thats about the extent of it. I'll go back and take another crack at it eventually, and another and another if needed, but it hasn't come

think I've partially worked out how to reset my time zone

2010-02-13 Thread Ray Foret jr
Okay, I've finally worked out how to set my time zone. At least, I've got the time zone correct. Now, I just have to work out what part of the closest city's name to click on to get back to Houma Louisiana. When I first went in to the time zone closest city combo box, I know as a fact I saw

Re: Twitter clients

2010-02-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I tried Canary and it works pretty well, exept for a couple quirks. The menus in the client are very slow in working with, that is you can effectively use the menus once you get to them, but the menu bar is very very slow to navigate with lots of busy, ready messages. Maybe there's a

RE: Fix for Sound Related Slowness on MBP

2010-02-13 Thread Simon Fogarty
I haven't noticed problems with MBP audio speeds but I have noticed problems related to speed of vm fusion on my MBP and on a couple of I macs I use. I find vm fusion is really slow even with 2 gig of ram and a dual core processor running. Anyone got a fix for this? Or has anyone got any

RE: deleting an app from an iPhone using vo

2010-02-13 Thread Joe Plummer
Thank, for the vote. I new it was right because that is the way I remove apps from my phone all the time. Now yes you do have the choice to delete the file but why would you want to delete the file or app that you might have paid good money for. My choice is to remove the app from the phone and

Re: Blog post: First Glance at Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, True enough, though that'd be the same as auto-forms mode. You'd still have to get System Access out of the form to navigate. But in SA this is just an arrow key or tab. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to

Re: web/sweet spots (wasBlog post: First Glance at Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard)

2010-02-13 Thread Donna Goodin
Ah! OK, got it. So how do you set a sweet spot? Thanks, Donna On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi Donna, A sweet spot is a position on a web page you have designated voiceover to be on as soon as you go to the site. web spots are just key positions on a page that you

question about growl with skype

2010-02-13 Thread Lyn Twinny
Hi list, I have a question about growl with skype. I have managed to set up growl to work perfectly well with adium but with skype, I notice that growl does not announce who is coming online but instead, it just says came online, or went away etc without announcing the name of whoever came

Re: New Notational Velocity desktop release has sync support for SimpleNote on iPhone [was Re: Appending text to clipboard]

2010-02-13 Thread VaShaun Jones
This was helpful and I got NV and I'm loving it. You are always helpful. On Feb 2, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Yvonne Thomson wrote: Hi. The other interesting thing about Notational Velocity is that you can, as long as you're not using its single database file but configure it to use html or rtf or

Boot Camp Assistant?

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I need to install yet another GNU/Linux distro for use at the Project GNU Libre Planet conference next month. I saw something called Boot Camp Assistant in the Utilities folder and fired it up. It only talks about installing Windows, can it be used for other OS distros? I have VMWare but

Re: irc client

2010-02-13 Thread Brian Moore
well, sort of got it to work with adium. it reads log on messages as well as private messages automatically. However, for some reason, I can't get it to read actual channel traffic automatically. If I interact with the control labeled unknown which is an html area, I can see it but no

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-13 Thread VaShaun Jones
I feel this is a great idea. It is time for us to speak out as a whole on the I Work accessibility issues especially with the I Pad having I Work support. On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Scott Howell wrote: And I would point out that any concerns should be directed to Apple. THe more folks have

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-13 Thread Pete Nalda
This isn't really VO related, but, is accessibility related, but not too long ago, I was in the Apple store and was trying out Pages on a machine there, using Zoom, and much to my disappointment, didn't allow for cursor tracking with Zoom. I thought, well, so much for advanced word processing

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-13 Thread James Nash
Hi Pete, Whilst I am not a Zoom user, i remember that this came up in the Mac Forums some time ago. I thought they had fixed this issue, but it might be worth dropping a line to accessibil...@apple.com TC James, Lyn, Nash Twinny On 13 Feb 2010, at 19:33, Pete Nalda wrote: This isn't

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-13 Thread VaShaun Jones
You can also check out a free word processor called Bean. Its allot more than simple. On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: This isn't really VO related, but, is accessibility related, but not too long ago, I was in the Apple store and was trying out Pages on a machine there, using

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-13 Thread James Nash
Bean is very good, it is a much more adanced Text Edit, although there are things that it does not contain suh as Tables of Contents and footnotes. But still, it is very good. You can also try Page Hand from: http://www.pagehand.com It is only at v.1.08 I believe, but it is quite accessible

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-13 Thread Pete Nalda
Will do! I'll be curious to see how that works with VO as well, as I use a combination of both at a lot of times. Thanks for the tip! On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:13 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote: You can also check out a free word processor called Bean. Its allot more than simple. On Feb 13, 2010, at

iPod Recyling Program and other discounts for the iPod Touch

2010-02-13 Thread Esther
Hi, There's a 10 percent iPod Recycling Program discount that Apple runs, if you purchase a new iPod in one of their Apple retail stores (U.S., Canada, and U.K. only, I think, at the present time), and bring in an old iPod at the same time. You have to be recycling an old iPod (Nanos and

How to set up Microsoft Exchange email in IPhone?

2010-02-13 Thread Jess
Can someone guide me on how to set up an email account that uses Exchange on the IPhone? My college email uses this, and their website is just not efficient. I'd rather be able to send email straight from the IPhone's mail program, or better yet, the mail app from the Mac instead of having to

Re: New Notational Velocity desktop release has sync support for SimpleNote on iPhone [was Re: Appending text to clipboard]

2010-02-13 Thread Yvonne Thomson
Glad it was helpful. The link to the blog post I wrote about it is at http://yvonnezed.posterous.com/switching-to-notational-velocity-adding-some Not a lot else there, but a couple more ideas. I'm still working out uses for it myself. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-13 Thread Mueller, Matt
I've experienced the same issue in Pages and in Bean as well, though I have used both with VO successfully. Sadly, many such issues exist in zoom, most of them very basic to its use. Although I've reported these, I've seen no change in its performance since Tiger. To my thinking, the

Pandora on the Mac

2010-02-13 Thread Lynn Schneider
Hi everyone. I totally love the Pandora service on my iPod Touch. I purchased a paid account, but cannot seem to get it to play on my Mac. I can find the links to play the stations, but when I click on those links, I get no music at all. Is it necessary to download the Pandora player for

Sweet spots

2010-02-13 Thread Linda Adams
Good evening, If someone posted a follow up to Krister's post, I missed it. Can a sweet spot be set on more than one page of a single web site? TIA, Linda -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom

Re: Is there enough VO support in I Work to justify the cost

2010-02-13 Thread Pete Nalda
I don't think it's going too far off topic, maybe a little since I'm speaking of Zoom, but we're still talking about word processors. While I agree that Apple should take steps to make zoom work properly with pages, I think other with other programs, it's the developers duty to program within

Structured headings in Pages

2010-02-13 Thread E.J. Zufelt
Good evening, So I was trying out Pages today. I noticed that a lot of the icons below the toolbar were dimmed, not available. I also couldn't seem to find any way to create structured headings in a document. Is there a tutorial on how to create accessible documents with Pages,